Hi! > For some time I had been working on this file system > test framework. > Now I have a implementation for the same and below is > the explanation. > Any comments are welcome. > > Introduction: > The testing tools and benchmarks available around do not > take into > account the repair and recovery aspects of file systems. > The test > framework described here focuses on repair and recovery > capabilities > of file systems. Since most file systems use 'fsck' to > recover from > file system inconsistencies, the test framework > characterizes file > systems based on outcomes of running 'fsck'. Thanks for your work. > Putting it all together: > The Corruption, Repair and Comparison phases could be > repeated a > number of times (each repetition is called an iteration) > before the > summary of that test run is prepared. > > TODO: > Account for files in the lost+found directory during the > comparison phase. > Support for other file systems (only ext2 is supported > currently) Yes, please. ext2 does really well in fsck area, unfortunately some other filesystems (vfat, reiserfs) do not work that well. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
